GAMBLING DEN RAIDED
EIGHT MEN CHARGED PRINCIPAL FINED £SO (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A raid on premises in Wellesley Street west .Was carried out by detectives yesterdtiy, arid later two Chinese and six Europeans appeared in the liflicfi doiirt. Charlie Lee was charged with keepiiij| si.boihfnon gaining house. " If he has no money the only thing to do is to send liim tb prlSoti*’’ the magistrate said. *‘ He has been fined twice previously for a similar Offence, the last time in February this year. Ho seems to regard fines as license fees, tfhero havo, however, not been many of these cases lately.". DcthcfiVo-Sotgeant Kfilly: Not since Your Worship dealt, with the last man ih a salutdry rriithiie'r. After that last fine they closed down for a while. I think you broke the bank about two months ago. Lee was fined £SO and each of tho other accused was fined £l.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 12
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